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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1887-05-26

Le meme jour, presqu'en meme
temps un bien triste accident est
arrive sur la ligne DIES tramwaYs
de la sixi6me rue pres de la qua
triAme rue. Un DIES enfants de
Henry Bolkins qui habite au nu-
msro $40, quatrieme rue Nord
jouait dams la rue ct vint Sc placer
au devant dun tramway qui sap
prochait. LIE conducteur ne put
arreter son cheval assez tot, Pen
FAINT, qui n'avait que deux ans fut
renvers6 ct les deux roues lui pas
serent str la jamie droite. Le
docteur j. e. Moore f1t appel6 ct
amputa la jamie 3 la hanche.
On a peu d'espoir que renfant
survive q cette terrible operation.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1887-05-26

2lots sur Ii 22eme Az. N. b. pres
de la 4eme rue, ,6Ox165, pour $500
chaque. S'adresser aux Campbell
Freres QUIZ. Demeules.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1887-05-26
ESpOIR POURLES SOURDS

g a a a J 1 = ! !; !; =; : i; ~: : - J : !: !.
monde Demandez le Ii
yrs On franqa ! de 80 pages c~ontenant
une exceilente etude sur la surdite, avec
illustration dui tympan, brevet etc. We
livre est tres interessant: En- ecrivant
mentionnez le Journal
Adresse, j B. NICHOLSON, No. IN
McDOngan ct, New York
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1887-05-26
Tia Won't az ma~ier dams onelnnl

lis won't SO ma.ier dams quelques
jours:
Eth bien, monsieur Charles,
lui dit,elle, yous ne regretterez pas
trop, je pense, votre vie de gareon?
oh! mademolselle, la cuisine
de restaurant est 81 mauvaisel
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1887-05-26

Quel est le plus graad math6ma-
ticien du steele?
-C'est Bismark.
-Pourquoii??
Parcequ'il a trouy6 Ia quadratu-
re du cercle.
Comment celia?
III a r6ussi q couvrir des tetes
carr6es avec un casque rond.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1887-05-26

auSS1.
-Tete du maril...
An bureau de placement.
LIE placeur 8 une bonnie qui
Went s'ofrir:
Nous ayons int condition ex-
.cellente pour vous.
Oh Ga?
Chez un vieux militaire.
Oh! monsieur Ga nest pas mon.
afaire. En- fait de militaires, le
Maine que les jeunes!
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-27
The Interstate Law and the Dry
Goods Trade.

The Boston Herald says "The interstate
commerce law has now been in operation
for couple of weeks, and merchants, es-
pecially in the dry-goods trade, are I'M
stinted in their condemnation of it. The
leading commission agents and iobbers of
this city look upon 1t as a measure favoring
the railroads, to the detriment of trade, and
the universal opinion to-day is that the law
must go. But the problem of the hour is
how to get through one year of the law with
as little disturbance to trade as possible.
The cost of the bill If enforced in the light
that the railroads have interpreted it, would
be enormous to the dry-goods trade. 1t
would increase the cost of shipping plain
cotton goods TO the cities of the West from
one cent to one and one-haf cents per yard.
Indeed, in case where such goods have
been heretofore shipped from Lawrence to
Philadelphia at twenty cents the cost is in
creased to forty cents. But this is only one
instance in thousands, and the constant
study of the merchant and manufacturer is
to find some means of escape from the OBJ
noXious, and in many cases prohibitory,
rate. In the case above mentioned the
goods are being shipped to Boston,, and
thence to Philadelphia by steamers. While
commission agents and manufacturers do
not look upon the law in the nature of a
permanent evil-they universally believe
that it will be modified by the commission
yet IL is very disturbing element for the
time. Trade is being harmed, especially the
iobbing trade, at time when business can
ill-afford it. 1t is fact that the cost of sell
ing and handling goods is alarmingly in
creased by this measure. The cost of eX-
cess baggage alone on salesman's samples
from a well-known Boston jobbing house to
a western city, the other day, was S18 Be-
sides. the new classification, which requires
that goods shall be baled in order to come
under the third class, is likely to cost any
prominent jobbing house the expense of two
or three extra men. Then, after all, the
system of shipment in bales, instead of
cases, is not satisfactory and is reckoned as
dangerous. Prominent jobbers in this city
estimate that the items of baling goods and
excess baggage alone would cost them any
where from $1,000 to $4,000, and all this
is going into the hands of the railroads. In
deed, merchants are inclined to look upon
the workings of the law, as the railroads
have construed it, in the nature of tax on
doing business that cannot and will not
stand. The commission will be applied to
for redress, and if it does not come from
that source the next move will be strong
one to repeal the law"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-27

MASON & HAMLIN PIANos.-Mason & Ham
lin bid fair to become as famous for their
pianos as they have long been for their
world-renowned organs The distinguish
ing feature about the Mason & Hamlin
piano is an important improvement in the
method of holding the strings. They are
secured by metallic fastenings, instead of by
the friction of pins set in wood, as has been
the case, and the advantages resulting are
highly important. Wonderful beauty and
musical quality of tone far less liability of
getting out OF tune greater reliability in
trying climates, and greater solidity of con-
struction and durability are secured.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-27

WAS terrible sufferer with salt rheum,
preferring death to life. DIR. Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy cured me-" Charles
Owen, Ironville, N. Y 81 acknowledge
DR.. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy to be a
cure for gravel, and, so far as know, the
only cure" j. M. Allen, Charlotte, n. Y.
Price 81. Send two-cent stamp to DR.. Ken
nedy Rondout, N. Y, for book on kidney,
liver and blood disorders. Mention this
paper.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-27

DYEING is practced in thousands of the
best families of the country. Any woman
of common sense is glad to avail herself of
the help of Diamond Dyes in restoring and
renovating old or faded articles. Price ten
cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-27

JOHN LORD HAYES, LID, died at Cam
bridge, Mass. He had held many important
positions in educational institutions.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-27

THE original of Colonel Sellers " was
the rebel general, jeff Thompson, after the
war surveyor of Louisiana, and whose niece
is now the wife of Professor Proctor. jeff
lived in Missouri and used to run up and
down the river with Sam Clemens Mark
Twain, when the latter was a steamboat
pilot Nobody who ever knew jeff Thomp-
son would for moment doubt the identity
of Mark Twain's portrait in the Gilded
Age" or poor Raymond's characterization
of Sellers on the stage. The only differ
ence between Thompson and the " Sellers j"
of Twain and Raymond was that the former
was more original in his eccentricities than
either the writer or the actor could paint
him.-ChicdgO Mail.
In the house of Thomas A. Edison, at
Llewellyn Park, n. j., is remarkable me-
mento to the late Mr.. Beecher. The in
ventor's photograph for impressing on soft
metal sheet the utterances of the human
voice, and then emitting it again by the
turning of crank has never been put to
any very valuable use, and Edison has only
gained from it a few thousand dollars in roy
allies from exhibitors. But he utilized il TO
make a collection of famous voices. Since
he became famous his visitors have included
hundreds of celebrities. Instead of asking
them for their autographs or photographs
he has, in two or three hundred instances,
requested them to speak d few sentences
into photograph. He has kept the plates
in a cabinet, and occasionally he runs some
of them through the machine, which sends
out the words exactly as uttered Edison is
probably the only man who can revive the
silenced voice of the great preacher.-Phiid-
delphid Times
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-27
WilliamstOwn.


EX-GovERNoR SMITH recently wrote Mr..
John Lynde that the Central Vermont Com
pany would proceed to locate the railroad
from Barre to Williamstown as soon as the
ground would permit. 80 Present well
come indications are that we are to have
Judge Young and wife Olee Miss Lenora Mar
TIM, now of Minneapolis, Mimi, as summer
guests. Are there not many other old Will
iamstownians who will arrange to come
back next season to witness the waking up
of their native town from its Rip Van
Wrinkle sleep at that time? And, after all
we suspect many of them on a return
might enjoy the old-time quiet better. -
One who went from this place to Barre to
reside visited Montpelier last week Wish
ing to emphasize the quietness of the CAPT
tai (of course in comparison with his newly
adopted home), he seemed to think of no
stronger way of doing it than by saying
sit seemed like Williamstown, or Sunday,
therel" - Hattie Briggs is 10 teach In
the Charles Woolcutt district and Dora
Huse in the David Gale district the coming
summer. - Gertie Barnes is in Barre
finishing her apprenticeship in Mrs. Horace
French's millinery rooms. - Messrs.
John Perry and Thomas Poland are work
ing at building for l.. j. Bolster in
Barre. - Arthur Ralph found no peace
on the j. M. Bass farm, because OF
the importantly of Messrs. Cross 4 Son
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-12
The Deash.Deaiing Placement.

DIR. W. u. stlliQan IN the POpuiar science Monthly
The above precautions. II not defective, guard a
basement against dampness, also against foul air.
coal-gas, eniayia from privy-welis and cesspools.
sewer-gaS and the various exhalatfons OF not un.
frequently nith-sodden soil, and IL should not be
foryotten that an unhealthy basement usually
means an unhealthy house. Polluted air Il sucked
all over the house W the nse OF heated air rom
the basement. II we must have Easements to
live In, sucn fe-guards should be enforced. But,
FOR one, wish 10 record my protest against Our
mod IN living cellar. A weii-ventiiated base.
ment Is almost an impoSsibilty nom It's low level,
and II Is 50 dfcult 70 get our ideal conditions
ecuted, that practically they are seldom
met with. l have seen great many cases
81 sickness which seemed 70 me due to
demonstrating, and many cases q tu-
perculosas which seemed TO have been there
developed. The last Is particularly noticeable
among servan. girls or foreign birth In the expo.
Hence Of physicians In some sections I. II rare TO
nnd servant giri nvlng 10 Q low basement who
country ana being suojected 70 such condiuons
good health II said 70 be the rule. Many peopte
have attacks OF sickness. following time u ex.
posture In basement with great regularity.
Would II not Be betyer for housebuilders and archl.
tects 70 plan more Tor dwellings above gTuundf
More OF lot has TO Be sAcrnced, Dot perhaps
enough may be saved IN healthfulneog and oeAfr-
eiimUine 70 compensate Tor the lcsa City yard9
are OF Agnt value AZ best. good cellar y ea1nod
~ such cnange, and upetaif3 oining.roofas and
ntchens are not only luxufieA but tt may b
argued, almost neceseitteA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-12

Everyone who has inhaled ether feels that he
has passed through q remarkable experience
whether Of q disagreeaple nature or the reverse,
observes q writer In the Youlhs Cpm1onson.
Sometimes the vapof carries with II the most de-
nghtfu sensations and again is productive OF only
the horrible. When the patient is ''going or or
returning 70 Consciousness, he often INDUCES In
absurd remarks.
There's my blue bonnet ~ said lady, opening
her eyes afler some time spent In dentists chair
so can't oe DEAD; that wouldn't nave been
Another sober matron was 90 delighted on re-
turning 70 consciousness At seeing the kinaly face
been noating on into space thai she exclaim ed.
excltedly, 20 doctor, love your
"Yes, yes. kn w Il, ne replied soothingiy, ana
him for evidently Understanding the Importance
or her statement that she kept on wildly insisxin0
But you don't Understand! adore you,"
fui surgical OPERATION, began isueninr tmmoder-
ately, - soon as the ether aected her. ArUer her
recovery she was asked 70 rvcl u the cause u net
mirth. and In DOING % she laughed e heartily
Il can't ten you how funny &c was, she declared.
II seemed 70 Dc crochstang, and there was 2 Dig
mosquito going in ana QUO With tbs loopA On, u
From which IL may be infered That ether, IN
common with haaheesh ana Opium, has the power
Of investing the simplest oolects and imaginings
A gentleman VINO had tnhaled ether fof the pur.
pose OF having his teeth extrAcated, says thefe
Was Soma Decay In the coufse Of the operation, and
when ne last testh were pulled - he'd begun 70
= ie.s no pam e s.ys N Describing n, ssn..,
whizzing thros1gh the country on . llghining ex-
press SAiA At intervals some one threw bug
log aeross n track = sreas q q snnns ana -
1900 d.a l:siss sSss % iss ~sS a. = .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-12
Ruben WhOl

Brn1sels Letter 70 Richmond Times
The other day over IN Antwerp came across
Another one Of our representative Americans
abroad II was really two, but as they were mar
red ! suppose it ID all right TO say one. They had
apparently lust landed, as Antwerp quite place
for Continental landers. and they were In the Ca
thcdral seeing what was 70 b seen for the marx
they had paid at the door.
my myi" said she. stopping before Rubens'
masterpiece, The Descent IRON the Cross, "thls
must De rine one, IT'S 50 awful ok"
yea zuess Il Is replied the husband picking
nis way Through new guide book as I'D as Ken
trcky politicisn's nose.
Whose Is l.7' sid sla
The BOOK says says It's Ruoens,, but don't see
any name On ne picture, he said, With some IN.
certainty.
"Dii you say 10 was RuoensT" she asked, after a
moments further investigation
That's what the boox says" said be.
sn's rather Indefinite" she said. "Ruben who?
What's Ais last name?-
'-Gfve it up said the man. "An the book says
70 thai 10 Il kaoens, and suppose that's all the
name ne had. Ike Matthew, Marx Luxe ana John
and lot more o! those oId ancients." and tnen
they went on around the cathedral comprenend-
ing what they eoo.d and guessing AZ the rest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-12
Sam Jones, Fish story.

From His Sermon At St. Louis.
Itel you, brethren, I am q good friend Of the
Baptists. love the Baptists. and have some good
solid friends among them. but I'll tell you an
incident, not as joke on the Baptists, but as an
Illustration or what want TO say.
Some fellows were fishing In Maine few months
ago, and they all went fishing daily. When they
got 10 the waters they were nshing IN they caught
among Others a very curious risn. II was tue
strang estlooking 1sh any or the men In the crowd
ever saw. One looked at II and another looked at
II, ana they discussed IL q good deal, and then
turned TO an old Maine man and asked him:
''Wnat sort OF nsn Is THIS Stranger"
swell" he said 81 don't know the real name Of
the creature, out we always call it the Baptist
fish,
''why9 What DO you CAN It the Baptist ash fort,
SWELL" he says, s'don't you know It's because
they spoil 30 soon after you take them out OF the
Water" (Laughter.1
OF course that AMT true about Methodisss, but
some OF you Methodists spoil mighty quick after q
big meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-12
Girls who Court Reausy.


The handsomest woman ever saw was one VIVA
took great care OF her health. When knew her
she was over thirty, but Lo girl OF sixteen that
have ever seen had rosier cheeks or brighter eyes.
or course she was naturally ine looking, but the
attention she gave to matters OF hygiene added 10
and preserved her beauty. What did she dor I
don't know That can recount all, but remember
her telling me she took a sponge bath every morn
Ing: was particular about the ventilation % her
but little meat, much frUit ana cereals whenever
she could get Them Another thing She did which
she tried without success 20 get me 10 do, shs
drank her coffee without milk or cream. diluted
with water.
The reason she took her coffee 50 was because
her physicians told her &c healthier 20 drink ig
In this way. Whether the practice added 10 her
personal charms or not don't know. on the
HABITS, and as certainly taere was nothing ardu-
Gus about the performance OF them Nor was
there anything bizarre about them as IL seems 20
me, there Is about the toliowlng account read q
a Chicago belle: ITO keep the suppleness of her
ngure she stands one hour daily, hfteen minutes
at a time, with her hands on her hips before long
mirror, and bending her knees out from each
other she sinks slowly down 20 the moor as low az
possible, then as slowly uprising. meantime NOV.
Ing her arms In any direction 10 their utmost
length, out or up. forward or back until when she
stands erect they are ready 20 De placed on ner
:.Eacn movement is repeated. every time little
accelerated, until al the eni Of thirteen minutes
Il is done quickly and fine coior is In her cheek.
without pillow, until her breath becomes smooth
and regular, as &c Will In the two minutes left In
her quar,e r OF an hour When she plays a good
deal or tennis She cuts down her exercising one
hail." OF course the benert TO he derived from
this procedure is not 20 be Questioned, whatever
may be thought OF Il besides IL Ii easy 10 her
whole body thus receives eood exerlise, adding
10 the grace OF her owu FORM besutiiying her CON.
plexlon and making her stronger ana healthier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-12
New Treatment for Consumption.
FROM Paris Letter in the y. 7. Medical Journal

The star OF Bergeon's treatment waning q little
new forms OF cure for tubercular patients are
being found with uEaoated vigor, and NJ. Garcin
comes 70 The front With hydronuorc acid This
new method consists In placing phthisical patients
for an hour every day N d small cabinet which
contains six cubic metres OF air that is saturated
with hydrofiQoric acid This saturation Is OBJ
tanned oy pumping current OF air through
g0tta-pefcha bottle that contains 100 grammes OF
The acid 70 so srsraInes Of distilled water. The
quantity Of air pumped In Is renewed every 1fteen
mluutes. a. the effect Is quickly exhausted The
ysfepl has been tried Tor yer past In a number
% cabinets that n Garcin has had ntted up In
room In his own house, and during the month OF
August q aundred patients were submitted to the
treatment OF this number, fourteen remained as
bsSore, forty-one were Improved, and tnirty-fye
were cured Bile ten died. IL isstated that under
the Influence OF tbs form or medication the at
tacn OF coughing diminish and usually cease.
The Koch oxciin cannot resist this acid they at
nrst are found 20 diminish In number, and soon
they 10 longer segment; al last they entirely dis
appear from The secreslonA The general state OF
AL tine patients was much improved. the appetite
Was Increased, the Rignr sweats ceased, and some
patients treated over year ago remain well IL
seems that the worKmen AZ the celebrated glass
mAnufactory al Baccaret had nrst noticed that the
ny1ro1uonc acid they employed had good effects
on the health OF consumptive persons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-12
The Woman with q Hammer.

This is the season when people who are moving
into hired houses are In many cases discovering
how great are the ravages OF former tenants In the
way or driving nails and tacks. single feeble
woman and tack-hammer will WORK more deface-
ment 10 a house In week than professional dec
orator can put right In q month. Two women
who dwell alone la an apartment win In a single
the ceilings, with tacks or nail-hoies whiIe n
there are Inree lone females IN the family, IL Is
generally easier 10 Tear the house down than 10
manner,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-12
Superior Longevity 81 the Female Sex
From the New York Tribuns

The gathered statistics OF the world show, it Is
claimed, that woman has greater tenacity or life
than men. and that the Hebrew women are the
longest lived OF any race. Then, too, among In
sects the male perishes At relatively carrier pc
ROD; In plans the seminate blossoms die earliest
ana are produced In the weaker uIaos; and female
Quadrupeds have more endurance than males In
the human race. despite intellectual and ply
cal strength OF the man, the woman ehdares
longest, ana VIII bear pain to which the strong
man succum1s Zymotic diseases are more fatal
10 males, and more male children die than females
Deverga asserts that the proportion dying sud-
denly IS about one hundred women 70 seven hun.
dred men. Intemperance, apopexy, govt, hydro
cephalus, anections OF the heart or liver scrofula
paralysis. are far more fatal 70 males than females
while pulmonary consumption, on the other hand,
is more deadly to the latter females in cities being
more prone TO this disease than are those In the
country. Though there are from 10 @ per cent
more males born than females, yet there Is an ex-
cess OF more than per cent OF females IN the NV.
ing populations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-12
SATURDAY. SMILES.

Lieut.. Bangs registering at Los Angeles hoteD-
"What's good room WORTH"
Cierk-"ko0ms are worth 80 now; but prices
may advance during the nighL-1Sd-Bits.
PinAfore-Aikad0 Gilbert's latest bon moi, adj
dressed TO o Literary circIe, 10 this: TIT Is easy
enough for bishops 10 be- good on salaries OF $4,000
o year, but we have TO be good for nothipg-and
some OF US are"
New Jersey man has seen woman's face In
the moon. The woman-suffrage party 10 the moon
has evidently had an election and elecIed its
didates. -Norristoson Herald.
New York Boy-'on, ma, what funny little mar.
row Deltl"
New YORK Nother-"Thas isn't belt, wnie.
That's the waist to your sisters new ball dress.r
Judge.
bride may be robed In yellow and stand with
her bridegroom In q bower OF yellow flowers and
all thar, and even be married BY minister VINO
has the jaundice, but no amount OF decoration
win prevent the discovery OF tue couples green
ness a. the 1rst notel they put up at-SprtnQJaetd
Onion.
His ompensation.-"who is that brute across
the street who slaps those little pCysf For . cent
Id 70 over and kick him.
Leave him alone. Its the only comfort he
hzA"
swhy.s
"He's the editor Of the sChildrens Corner d.
partment Of weekly paper.-Lsacoin JOssrnal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-12

HWW 0OMAO k00100 R00t0m Z0Om C01OOooe
From the g. James 0aastta.
An interesting tact was stated In the course a q
lecture on tight lacins delivered YESTERDAY octo-
Der Ia BY Miss Hef1er-Arnim. The lecturer said
..she had heard OF instances where ladies were %
determinei not to exceed the fsshionabls measure
msnt mat they had actually held on TO . cross-
bar while their maids had fastened the 15-tnch
c0fsst" Bang but imperfvctly ACQUAINTED with
these myBtereA We oan only e0ppoee that the
tns body mofe than wound b poe1teIe ~ mSrely
Standing UPRIGHT There seems 70 be nele nor
invenuon nerd II e really 2 . Important 70
d6ne scientifically. A combined uodysikrstchsr
and wa,es.oompIssaor would supply dseaded
6sSoro issnioa 6scfeSd the i8-anch cofsek 10 b
surely vory tnouehtieus 70 0rusf people 70 make
tnemseivUo measure Is 1ncneU round the waast
Mltnous providing shsm wish the necessary
maeninofy.